Davenport wasn't in 'old boys club': Letters, May 4, 2018

Davenport wasn't in 'old boys club'

It is clear to me that Chancellor Davenport was fired because she is a female and progressive, both of which are not valued by the “old boys club”. She has poor communication skills? Give me a break!

Linda Bailey, Loudon

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Phil Roe, swamp dweller

One of the themes of the 2016 election was to “drain the swamp!” Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee's First Congressional District, may find it hard to leave his swamp because of the position he has put himself in by accepting campaign contributions from one of the corporations (software provider Cerner Corporation) he has promised to watch over.

The Veterans Affairs Administration has made a no-competitive-bid commitment for $10 billion-plus with Cerner to provide medical records software. On Roe’s website, he states “this decision will require careful oversight…” Now here is where the swamp water gets deeper - Cerner has contributed $15,000 to Roe for the 2016 and 2018 elections (according to opensecrets.org)!

So VA Committee Chairman Roe is going to provide oversight on a $10 billion-plus project while receiving significant campaign contributions from the corporation running the project. It seems that Congressman Roe has been in D.C. too long.

This November, remember to vote Roe out of office. It is time to “drain the swamp.”

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Christians support Trump by choice

Ina Hughs made a disturbing declaration in a recent column in which she labels as “misguided” those conservative Christians who support Donald Trump as president. To bolster her opinion, she brought in a fellow liberal who went even further in his condemnation of Trump supporters.

Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourner magazine, compared the Trump administration to the Nazi party in Germany and implied that some German Christians in that horrible era supported the Nazi party. He then asserts that present-day Trump supporters are equally complicit in supporting the Trump presidency, thus putting Nazi Germany under Hitler and America under Trump in an inane comparison.

Personally, I find this offensive and unbelievable.

We, living in freedom, cannot imagine the constant presence of death facing German Christians and the slightest infractions that could end your life. We conservative Christians who support Trump do so by choice. Those German Christians, to whom Jim Willis alluded, were not followers by choice. For example, they saw what happened to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, whose strong opposition to Nazism cost him his life. We Trump supporters, Christian or otherwise, have no such fears.

My vote for Donald Trump was, to me, a matter of necessity. Even so, I did so freely and willingly. The frightening thought of Hillary Rodham Clinton as president of the United States eliminated choice. Hillary as president may not have been as bad as I feared, but I remain thankful that millions of voters voted for the alternative candidate, which happened to be Donald Trump. May his first term in office warrant a second.